Fiction in translation

Jorge Luis Borges' Fictions introduced an entirely new voice into world literature. It is here we find the astonishing accounts of Funes, the man who can forget nothing, the French poet who recreated Don Quixote word for word, and many others.

This collection contains dark, dreamlink love stories with a twist from the author of 'There One Lived a woman Who Tried to Kill her Neihgbour's Baby'.

A new collection of the most compelling, strange and fantastical German stories from the past 200 years.

This volume is a collection of Sciascia's stories. In one tale, a couple of men talk about the etymology of the word 'mafia', and the reader comes to realise that he is eavesdropping on the musings of a mafia boss and his underling.

Only one character appears in Kafka's work; the homo domesticus, so Jewish and so German and so eager to keep his place. Borges described Kafka's characterisation in such a manner. This volume includes some of his most famous stories.

Trurl and Klapaucius are 'constructors' - they travel around the universe creating machines of astonishing inventiveness and power and visiting a bewildering variety of violent, peculiar and morose civilizations.

'White Nights' comprises a poignant tale of love and loneliness from one of Russia's foremost writers.

For anyone interested in European literature these stories are an undiscovered snapshot of some of the most interesting and important writing of the 20th and 21st century. From the same culture that consistently draws worldwide attention for its groundbreaking and avante-garde movements in the vi...

The stories and reportage collected in this volume form a powerful portrait of ordinary lives, both high and low, family dramas, love affairs, and struggles to pay the rent, set against the crumbling courtyards of the city of Naples itself, and the dramatic landscape of Naples Bay.

'The Years', by bestselling French author Annie Ernaux, is a personal narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present - even projections into the future - photos, books, songs, radio, television and decades of advertising, headlines, contrasted w...